Coffee

Researchers at Oregon State University said they’ve created a way to turn a common food byproduct into useful food packaging.  OSU’s findings were just published in the Journal of Food Science, showing used coffee grounds can be converted into a flexible material that could eventually replace plastic wrap.  Assistant Prof...

Earlier this week, representatives Jill Tokuda of Hawaii  and William Timmons from South Carolina launched the Congressional Coffee Caucus.  The goal is to work together to highlight coffee’s positive impact on the U.S. economy and help strengthen the resilience of the crop’s global supply chain.   “Coffee is more t...

As harvest wraps up for this year’s Brazilian coffee crop, drought is already threatening the 2025 harvest.  The market is watching how the dry conditions, the worst drought in more than seventy years there, will affect the coffee plants.  Prices are al...

Coffee consumption reached its peak in the United States in 1946, with the average American consuming that year almost 46 1/2 gallons of coffee. Things went along a pretty well for coffee until the 1970s, when coffee consumption began to turn downward...

Brazil’s government said its farmers will harvest 55.74 million bags of coffee in 2022. That number is 16.8% higher than last year, but experts say that’s a smaller amount than most people in the world’s largest coffee producer were expecting. Reuters said the ...

While the cost of last year’s Thanksgiving Day dinner was the lowest since 2010, this year could be quite a different story. According to the New York Times, this could be the most expensive dinner on record in the holiday’s history. Nearly ev ...

Coffee prices continue to move higher. Brazil, the top coffee producer was hit hard by frost, and the record cost of freight brought on by COVID-19 causing massive shipping logjams will push prices to multi-year highs in the weeks to come ...

A surprise frost last week struck Brazil’s coffee belt and hit farmers hard. Financial Post says industry experts fear farmers may default on deliveries of recently-harvested coffee that were sold to traders months ago at prices that are half of the current value. Tem ...

When the coronavirus pandemic started in March and April of last year, it sparked an increase in the buy local movement in the U.S, as well as in Mexico. To try to capitalize on the renewed interest in knowing from where their food comes, The U ...

Senate Bill 5693 was legislation that surprised many in the Washington Ag community this session.  The legislation introduced in Olympia has been referred to as the Slavery Bill, for its requirements that Washington farmers prove they are not using slave labor in their operations.  ...